Vocabulary
A powerful 19th century businessman or banker who used questionable or unethical business practices to become powerful or wealthy.
What is a Robber Baron?
This person made their fortune in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Nobel Peace Prize winner established immigration education centers, with her most famous being "Hull House" in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
The Potato Famine, resulting in a lost of 25% of its population, was the main reason why this group of people immigrated to the United States.
Who are the Irish?
This group helped lead worker strikes and negotiated contracts with businesses.
What are Labor Unions?
A business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way.
What is a Captain of Industry?
This banker helped bail out the federal government twice during times of recession.
Who is J. P. Morgan?
After her father's oil business failed due to Rockefeller's unethical business practices, this person used the power of the pen to expose corruption in the oil business.
Who is Ida M. Tarbell?
These two checkpoints, one on the East coast and one on the West coast, determined whether an immigrant may be allowed to enter the United States.
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island?
A period of social activism and legal reform aimed at addressing the issues of the Gilded Age and the Industrial Revolution
What is the Progressive Era?
This economic philosophy that encourages limited to no government regulations.
What is Lasissez-Faire?
This industrialist controlled 90% of all oil production through his company, Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This journalist went undercover in a meat packing plant to expose the truth, writing the highly popular book, "The Jungle"?
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Most immigrants during the Gilded Age lived in ______________ and worked in _____________________.
What are tenements and factories?
This government oversight committee was created in part to the unsafe and unsanitary conditions of the meat packing plants.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
The consolidation of a particular business that corners the market and prices for its services and goods.
What is a Monopoly?
This businessman had majority stakes in the railroad industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Who is Jacob Riis?
The railroads were built mainly by these two immigrant groups.
What are the Chinese and Irish?
This term describes the practice of helping companies maximize workers efficiency through increased automation.
What is "Taylorism"?
Term used to describe investigative journalists during the Progressive Era.
What is a Muckraker?
This "roughrider" politician fought against the unethical business practices of industrial leaders.
Who is President Theodore Roosevelt?
This person helped founded the NAACP and advocated that blacks should push back against the dominate culture to earn more rights.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
This nationalist ideology believed that U.S. born citizens were far superior than immigrants.
What is Nativism?
The movement in the scientific and education community that believed those with "inferior" genes threatened the nation's future and curb the reproduction of those "inferior".
What is the Eugenics Movement?